Improvement in names for horse-collars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. BROVN, OF .LANSINGBURGQ NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, CHAS. A.MOTT, AND A. A. PEEBLES, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMES FOR HORSE-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,9 5 6, dated April10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoIIN E. BROWN, of Lansingburg, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Haines for Horse-Oollars; and l do herebydeclare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable-others skilled in the art to make and use the saine,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a side View of my invention; Fig.2, a longitudinal central section of the saine; Fig. 3, an outer-edgeview of' the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and inI- proved mode of attaching thetop strap to the llames, as hereinafter fully shown and de-V scribed,whereby said strap may with the greatest facility be adjusted higher orlower to suit the size of the collar to which the llames are to beattached.

The invention also relates to a new and improved mode of attaching thetraces to the llames, whereby the same may readily be adjusted higher orlower to preserve a proper line ofdraft.

A represents one of a pair of collar-llames constructed of wood andofthe usual form, and covered at its outer edge with a metal plate, a,the upper part of which is perforated with holes b, as shown in Figs. 2and 3.

B is a metal collar, which is fitted on the upper part of the haine A,and is allowed to slide freely up and down thereon, said collar having aring, O, at its outer side, for the rein or line to pass through, andhaving an eye, c, at its inner side, for the strap D, by which the upperparts of the hames are secured to the collar, to pass through. A spring,d, is placed within the collar, the ends of which are fitted in agroove, e, in the inner edge of the hame, and this spring has a tendencyto keep pins f, which are in the socket at the outer edge of the hame,in the hole, b in plate u, and consequently prevent the collar B fromcasually sliding on the hame, the interior of the collar beingsufficiently large to admit of the pins being drawn out from the holes bby pulling the collar laterally outward and the collar adjusted higheror lower on the hanie, as may be desired. This will be fully understoodby referring to Fig. 2. It will be seen, therefore, that the strap I),by a very simple manipulation, may be placed higher or lower, accordingto the size of the collar to which the haines are to be applied, thespringd always keeping the pinsfot the collar in the holes b in plate a,when the collar is released by the operator.

E represents a loop of quadrangular form and bentin right-angular shape.This loop is tted in eyes g, which are dri'ven into the hame at itslower part. The rear side of this loop is formed with three notches orrecesses, h, one above the other, and in any of these notches the eye j,which is secured to the front of the trace-strap F, is fitted. The frontpart of the loop E is a plain round surface, and in it oneof thepole-straps is secured. When the haines are adjusted tothe collar thepole-straps will keep the rear notched part ot' the loops close by theouter side or edge of the hames, as shown in Fig. l, and the eyej cannotcasually slip from one notch to another, and in order to adjust the eycjhigher or lower the loop requires to be slipped or Inoved in the eyes g,so that the rear notched part of the loop may be shoved out from thellame sufficiently far to admit of the eye j of the traccstrap beingadjusted in any one of the notches h. Thus by this simple means the lineof draft may be regulated higher or lower, as occasion may require.

Having thus described In y invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The adjustable collar B, arranged with thespring d and the pinsj, in combination with the holes b in the plate aat the outer edge of the hame, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The loop E, bent in right-angular form, notched at its rear or outerend, and secured to the hanne by the eyes g, to admit of the eye j f thetrace-strap being adjusted higher or lower in the loop, and retained asadjusted by the pole-straps, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN E. BROWN.

Witnesses CEAS. J. LANSING, FRANCIS RISING.

